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(Compli)cities: A Review of Aimee Louw’s “Less Sweet Than Chocolate or Concrete”
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Less Sweet Than Chocolate or Concrete by Aimee Louw
Frog Hollow Press, 2020
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Crip Poetics is my thesis title / I don’t really know what poetics means.” So ends the penultimate poem in Aimee Louw’s new chapbook,
Less Sweet Than Chocolate or Concrete, a recent addition to Frog Hollow Press’ Dis/Ability series. While it’s clear that Louw is an experienced poet and could probably articulate a convincing definition of “poetics” if necessary, a rejection of “mastery”––of writing with performative authority––pulses at the heart of this collection. Instead, these poems ask radical questions about complicity and belonging––all while inhabiting the tension of calling for “equal access” as a settler with a disability on unceded land, and interrogating th